Chapter 6: Ching, Thump, Ahh!
"It's been over an hour," Selena sighed, checking her no-signal phone.
Ashley nodded. "I know. I'm so worried about Kyle."
Kikko
sighed. "I'm out of rice."
"Kikko," Selena sighed.
"Get over it. Please."
"Michael?" I asked. "What are
you doing?"
"There's…something in the fireplace."
I gasped.
We turned, to see him take a rod, making a slight-ear piercing noise against its holder. He took the rod and poked the body. It thumped out of the fireplace, and we, the girls, screamed. Michael and Derek gasped.
"Carmen," Derek whispered.
Her body was…cut up.
"There are at least… 3 or 4 pieces," Kikko gasped, covering her eyes.
"I
want to go back to Japan!"
"Then why did you even come
here?" Selena snapped. "All you've been doing is do all this
Asian stuff and whimper. We're facing possibly 2 serial killers,
and you worry about if you have enough rice to eat!"
Kikko
growled. "Back off!"
Selena rolled her eyes. "Stop
talking."
No one talked for awhile after that.
"We have two more days," I broke the ice.
"My phone says it's Wednesday!" Selena said, making a face at her phone.
"Mine says Tuesday," Derek said.
"Mine says Wednesday," Kikko said.
"Tuesday," Ashley agreed.
"Mine
says Tuesday," Michael sighed. "Great. Somehow Kross got to our
phones."
"How?" Ashley asked.
"I dunno. I don't even know how to do that," Michael grunted.
"So it's Tuesday, just by the majority?" I asked.
"Do
we agree with Nicole?" Derek asked.
Everyone nodded.
"Great, so 2 days," I repeated again, and laughed.
Everyone smiled.
"Anyone wanna sing some songs?" Michael asked nervously.
"If it'll help pass the time," Ashley said.
"Anyone
know…" I trailed off. "What do you guys even like? We don't
even know each other."
"I like pop and hip-hop," Ashley
said.
"Same," Selena added.
"I like techno!" Kikko said, doing the robot.
"Oh, me too!" Michael laughed.
"Rock," Derek simply shrugged his shoulders.
"I feel so stupid right now," I laughed.
Ashley
chuckled. "Why?"
"Because I like country," I nervously
laughed.
Everyone laughed. "Wow, Nicole!" Selena laughed.
"Thanks," I simply rolled my eyes, smiling.
We
then heard a thump come from the roof.
We all looked up. Ashley
gasped. "What was that?"
We where all quiet.
THUMP.
Kikko
gasped. "Oh, no!"
"What do you think it is?" Derek
whispered.
"Who do you think it is?" I corrected.
We were quiet for about 5 more minutes. Nothing.
"I
think it stopped," Ashley sighed. "At least we didn't hear
anyone scream."
I nervously chuckled. "Right, that's
good."
"Should one of us go look?"
"I'll go," Derek sighed.
"Be careful," I reminded him.
He nodded. "But I'm not worrying about being careful. I'm worrying about being next to die."
